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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Rendition \Ren*di"tion\ (r?n-d?sh"?n), n. [LL. rendere to render: cf. L. redditio. See Render, and cf. Reddition.]
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The act of rendering; especially, the act of surrender, as of fugitives from justice, at the claim of a foreign government; also, surrender in war.
The rest of these brave men that suffered in cold blood after articles of rendition.
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Translation; rendering; version.
This rendition of the word seems also most naturally to agree with the genuine meaning of some other words in the same verse.
--South.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1600, "surrender of a place or possession," from obsolete French rendition "a rendering," noun of action from Old French rendre "to deliver, to yield" (see render (v.)). Meaning "translation" first recorded 1650s; that of "an acting, a performing" first recorded 1858, American English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context now rare English) The surrender (of a city, fortress etc.). (from 17th c.) 2 (context now rare English) The hand over of a person or thing. (from 17th c.) 3 translation between languages, or between forms of a language; a translated text or work. (from 17th c.) 4 (context legal chiefly US English) Formal deliverance of a verdict. (from 18th c.) 5 (context legal chiefly US English) The handing-over someone wanted for justice who has fled a given jurisdiction; extradition. (from 19th c.) 6 An interpretation or performance of an artwork, especially a musical score or musical work. (from 19th c.) 7 A given visual reproduction of something. (from 20th c.) vb. (context transitive English) To surrender or hand over (a person or thing); ''especially'', for one jurisdiction to do so to another.
WordNet
n. a performance of a musical composition or a dramatic role etc.; "they heard a live rendition of three pieces by Schubert" [syn: rendering]
an explanation of something that is not immediately obvious; "the edict was subject to many interpretations"; "he annoyed us with his interpreting of parables"; "often imitations are extended to provide a more accurate rendition of the child's intended meaning" [syn: interpretation, interpreting, rendering]
the act of interpreting something as expressed in an artistic performance; "her rendition of Milton's verse was extraordinarily moving" [syn: rendering, interpretation]
Wikipedia
Rendition may refer to:
- Rendition (law), a legal term meaning "handing over"
- Extraordinary rendition, the apprehension and extrajudicial transfer of a person from one nation to another
- "Rendition" (Torchwood), an episode of Torchwood
- Rendition (text adventure game), a 2007 political art experiment in text adventure form
- Rendition (film), a 2007 film directed by Gavin Hood, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and Reese Witherspoon
- Extraordinary Rendition (film), a 2007 film directed by Jim Threapleton, starring Omar Berdouni and Andy Serkis
- Rendition (company), a maker of 2D and 3D graphics chipsets for PCs
- Holomatix Rendition, a raytracing renderer
Rendition was a maker of 3D computer graphics chipsets in the mid to late 1990s. They were known for products such as the Vérité 1000 and Vérité 2x00 and for being one of the first 3D chipset makers to directly work with Quake developer John Carmack to make a hardware-accelerated version of the game (vQuake). Rendition's major competitor at the time was 3Dfx. Their proprietary rendering API's were Speedy3D (for DOS) and RRedline (for Windows).
Rendition is a 2007 abduction thriller film directed by Gavin Hood and starring Reese Witherspoon, Meryl Streep, Peter Sarsgaard, Alan Arkin, Jake Gyllenhaal and Omar Metwally. It centers on the controversial CIA practice of extraordinary rendition and is based on the true story of Khalid El-Masri, who was mistaken for Khalid al-Masri. The movie also has similarities to the case of Maher Arar.
"Rendition" is the second episode of the fourth series of British science fiction television series Torchwood, and was broadcast in the United States on Starz on 15 July 2011, in Canada on Space on 16 July 2011, and in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 21 July 2011.
In law, rendition is a "surrender" or "handing over" of persons or property, particularly from one jurisdiction to another. For criminal suspects, extradition is the most common type of rendition. Rendition can also be seen as the act of handing over, after the request for extradition has taken place.
Rendition can also mean the act of rendering, i.e. delivering, a judicial decision, or of explaining a series of events, as a defendant or witness. It can also mean the execution of a judicial order by the directed parties. But extraordinary rendition is distinct from both deportation and extradition, being inherently illegal.
Rendition is a 2007 work of interactive fiction by "nespresso", written using Inform 7 and published in z-code format, in which the player performs an interrogation of a suspected terrorist. The game describes itself as a "political art experiment in text adventure form". It was submitted to the 2007 Interactive Fiction Art Show in the " Portrait" category.
None of the seven judges at the art show reported enjoying the game, and many criticised its gameplay, though certain aspects of the game were praised. Jon Ingold stated that he stopped playing the game shortly after starting it, as he disliked the level of violence, though stated "I think this is all very powerful ... As a demonstration of the power - the impact - that a 'silly little text-game' can have, it works very well." Another judge stopped playing the game on the same grounds, though commented "in many ways this was a clever idea, a portrait of me and what I am willing to do." Another stated that whilst the game was "painful to explore, the concept [wa]s particularly well-suited to interactive fiction".
The game was subsequently chosen as game-of-the-day by playthisthing, where it was described by Emily Short thus:
She subsequently used the game, along with Photopia, as an example of an "approach to tragedy in interactive fiction" at the Association for Computing Machinery's Hypertext 2007 conference. It was further discussed in a lecture at Cambridge University by Jorge Nathan Matias on 5 November 2007, and was mentioned in a conference paper by Alex Mitchell and Nick Montfort for the 2009 Digital Arts and Culture Conference.
Usage examples of "rendition".
A marvelous bebop medley, consisting of wonderful renditions of jazz tunes in the style of Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, and Elmo Hope.
The roar of a long-ago crowd came back, a crowd packed tightly together up there, in the bleachers, with the band in the center of things blaring away with its endless renditions of the Spartan fight song.
She was standing in front of a pointillist rendition of a human head formed by a cloud of gengineered gnats.
Chardonnay, a puckering rendition of a California varietal she probably bought by the keg.
Of course, if the story is an allegorical one, the fictional rendition of a mythical act by a mythical Jesus, the case goes out the window.
Saltzman was the first non-Italian Lo Manto had ever met, a deeply religious man who ate cottage cheese every day for lunch and laughed at his own rendition of stupid jokes.
We will not seek to disprove that there existed very early beliefs in a Jesus who was divine and who had been resurrected, but we will show that the standard interpretation of such beliefs has been erroneous, and that the Gospel rendition of such beliefs is a later development, largely if not entirely fiction.
While the world still was reeling and his hammock was swaying as if slung on board a storm-lashed ship at sea, one of the larger cannoneither the ten-pounder demiculverin or one of the three eight-pounder sakersroared close by, while the guard-bugler began to wind his horn in an off-key rendition of first the Assembly and then the Call to Arms.
But when speaking of the rendition of Handelian arias, he evidently uses the term vibrato in the same sense as Sieber does tremolando.
A fairly easy translation had produced a marvelously hierographic rendition, fascinating us.
Since 1793 the Court has frequently reiterated the early view that the federal courts organized under article III cannot render advisory opinions or that the rendition of advisory opinions is not a part of the judicial power of the United States.
I am Voltairean here, in that my sights are indeed on this life, this side of the grave, and I contend that the renditions of death and dying in literature and art are food for the living.
He imitated popular crooners and his renditions were so comical that I had ended up laughing like a child.
Q And the title Once at Antietam is intended to evoke reverberations of that dramatic moment at Aleppo seized upon by Shakespeare in his memorable poetic rendition?
After a short stroll in the park and an early movierated R for raunchy, some godawful rendition of a worse bestseller, that bound itself somehow in Dan's mind with his real-life situation, so that he kept half-expecting the crab-machine to appear on screenhe bought Wanda burgers and beer at one of the classier drive-ins, after which they moved on to what the newspapers called a swinging singles bar.